The Urantia Book-- Part IV. The Life And Teachings
Of JesusPAPER 122: Section 1.
Joseph And Mary

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Joseph, the human father of Jesus (Joshua ben Joseph), was a Hebrew of the Hebrews,
albeit he carried many
non-Jewish racial strains which had been added to his
ancestral tree from time to time by the female lines of his progenitors. The
ancestry of the father of Jesus went back to the days of Abraham and through
this venerable patriarch to the earlier lines of inheritance leading to the
Sumerians and Nodites and, through the southern tribes of the ancient blue man,
to Andon and Fonta. David and Solomon were not in the direct line of Joseph's
ancestry, neither did Joseph's lineage go directly back to Adam. Joseph's immediate
ancestors were mechanics -- builders, carpenters, masons, and smiths. Joseph
himself was a carpenter and later a contractor. His family belonged to a long
and illustrious line of the nobility of the common people, accentuated ever
and anon by the appearance of unusual individuals who had distinguished themselves
in connection with the evolution of religion on Urantia.

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Mary, the earth mother of Jesus, was a descendant of a long line of unique
ancestors embracing many of the most remarkable women in the racial history
of Urantia. Although Mary was an average woman of her day and generation,
possessing a fairly normal temperament, she reckoned among her ancestors such
well-known women as
Annon,
Tamar, Ruth, Bathsheba, Ansie, Cloa, Eve, Enta,
and Ratta. No Jewish woman of that day had a more illustrious lineage of common
progenitors or one extending back to more auspicious beginnings. Mary's ancestry,
like Joseph's, was characterized by the predominance of strong but average
individuals, relieved now and then by numerous outstanding personalities in
the march of civilization and the progressive evolution of religion. Racially
considered, it is hardly proper to regard Mary as a
Jewess. In culture and
belief she was a Jew, but in hereditary endowment she was more a composite
of Syrian, Hittite, Phoenician, Greek, and Egyptian stocks, her racial inheritance
being more general than that of Joseph. P1345:2,122:1.3
Of all couples living in Palestine at about the time of Michael's projected
bestowal, Joseph and Mary possessed the most ideal combination of widespread
racial connections and superior average of personality endowments. It was
the plan of Michael to appear on earth as an average man, that the
common people might understand him and receive him; wherefore Gabriel selected
just such persons as Joseph and Mary to become the bestowal parents.